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Subject: Re: Floppy Boot installation problems: Plz help
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Did you try booting from the cdrom?

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ashwin Kotian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to install the current stable version of FreeBSD v.4.4 through 
> the floppy boot installation method. I've used fresh new floppies & have 
> formatted them under Linux (and also Windows NT ). I've copied the image files 
> for kern.flp & mfsroot.flp onto 2 individual floppies. I've been able to boot 
> from both floppies in succession till the phase where we resolve the conflicts 
> during installation. However inspite of specifying the minimum hardware for the 
> kernel to probe, once I quit & save the parameters, after probing for the 
> common devices until it finishes probing the system console device, the machine 
> stays hung up.
> I've tried with a no. of new floppies. Also the image files which I dowloaded 
> were in binary mode. Still I'm unable to proceed with the installation of 
> FreeBSD.
> This machine currently has FreeBSD v4.3 installed & running, however I've read 
> that it is better to redo the entire installation from scratch rather than do 
> the upgrade.
> Any help here will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Ashwin.
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